"Beware the demagogues ready to declare a trade war against our friends"

[Jonathan Whatley]

Lol ya, the founding fathers actually wanted the former president to hold on to classified documents and store them in a bathroom accessible to people without security clearance. I forgot that is actually in Federalist paper 70.

The President of the United States can do what ever he wants with so called "classified documents" because the classification has nothing to do with him. He can throw them out a window, wipe his ass with them or light them on fire. It is all irrelevant. He can declare any document "declassified" at will and does not have to tell anybody. Too many people watch too many movies and do not understand the basic powers of the Presidency.

You're describing the power of a sitting president to declassify information or to share classified information.

NJB was describing a separate issue. Official records created or received by the president as part of his constitutional, statutory, or ceremonial duties are not personal property, they're property of the United States per the Presidential Records Act of 1978. After a president leaves office they are managed not by the former president but by the National Archives and Records Administration.